This fallacy asks a question which presumes something unknown has already been proven or accepted. “Isn’t it time governments stand up for the future and act on global warming?” The question presumes that manmade global warming is real and impactful, and if so, that governments have the ability to stop it. There are too many unanswered questions that must precede such a question.
4. Chappaquiddick On July 18th of 1969 Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge into a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. His passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne was killed. According to his own testimony Kennedy swam away from the accident after failing to save her, then waiting over 9 hours to report…
Photo by XP-300 7. John F. Kennedy As a young single man in the 1940s, Kennedy had affairs with Danish journalist Inga Arvad, and actress Gene Tierney. Later in married life, Kennedy reportedly had affairs with a number of women, including Marilyn Monroe, Gunilla von Post, Judith Campbell, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Marlene Dietrich, Mimi Alford,…
On November 9th, 2014 the world celebrated the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The event not only led to the liberation of millions of people and the fall of the Soviet Union, but it effectively ended a near 50 year old cold war nuclear standoff between the USSR and the United…
7. Even more troubling than drugs, Mexican cartels are now heavily involved in trafficking people, both for the purposes of slave labor and sex. “Why? Because a dose of drugs can be bought and consumed only once, but the same human being can be exploited in many forms over and over again throughout a lifetime,” says…
The Troubles is the common name for the ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that spilled over at various times into parts of the Republic of Ireland, England and mainland Europe.
Photo by *cHARLIe 2112(^:* 4. Barack Obama’s Transparency Barack Obama has declared his administration the most transparent in history, but at seemingly every turn there have been efforts to prevent the public from knowing the full story. Perhaps the most famous example of this is then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s famous statement, “We have to pass…